It passed the architectural features of the 2008 Olympics, including the Beijing National Stadium and Beijing National Aquatics Center (known colloquially as the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube).

Typically, the female chooses the nest site and builds the nest.

Andrew Bird's one man orchestra of the imagination

If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young

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But if more nest maintenance work is needed for example, if I put out a bunch of toothpicks then nobody will ever switch back to nest maintenance, they have to get nest maintenance workers from inside the nest.

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young

Like sheltered eggs in a nest .

Like sheltered eggs in a nest .

At the finished nest, a pair gives displays similar to those of the group ceremonies and mates, often on top of the nest.

Some simply fight their way into the nest.

This bird's song is particularly harsh, especially when these birds, in a flock, are calling.

Nevertheless, the vital force continued to be invoked to explain organic chemistry in Bird's time.

In most species the female alone constructs the nest.

Bird's 1841 paper in Guy's Hospital Reports contained an impressively long list of successful case studies.

Bird's experiments sometimes get him credit for being the founder of the industrial field of electrometallurgy.

The fourth edition was edited by Charles Brooke, a friend of Bird's, after the latter's death.

One or two broods are reared, usually in the same nest.

Similar forms of nest construction are seen in some species of Polyrhachis .

Around 1839, recognising Bird's abilities in chemistry, Astley Cooper asked him to contribute to his book on breast disease.

They enlarge the nest, forage for food, and care for the other eggs.

They integrate this information to find the shortest route back to their nest.

At this point, or perhaps after another year, the animal left the nest.

In some regions, people state that other birds help it build its nest.

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

This arrangement is an example of a single cell Daniell cell, and Bird's invention was the first of this kind.

A variety of methods are employed to enter the nest of the host ant.

Adult males do not participate in nest maintenance, foraging, or caretaking of the larvae.

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

What we're doing is people like this a lot, this bird's eye imagery we work with. It's this high resolution data.

Bird's cell was the basis for the later development of the porous pot cell, invented in 1839 by John Dancer.Morus, pp.

Below, like some latticed popover, is the Herzog de Meuron designed birds nest Olympic Stadium.

This was a common complaint among the working classes in Bird's time, and hospitals could not admit the majority of cases for treatment.

Nests may be protected from physical threats such as flooding and overheating by elaborate nest architecture.

The caterpillar is then taken into the ant nest where it feeds on the ant larvae.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

An opportunist uses the slack to feather his own nest rather than help the leader or the public.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Prout had said (in 1819) that the pink sediment in urine was due to the presence of ammonium purpurate, but Bird's tests failed to verify this.

But if instead I start to meet a higher number of nest maintenance workers, I'm less likely to forage.

Actually you take any object coated with fig juice and the ants will carry them back to the nest.

Black ants collect and store these and other seeds in their nest, where humans can gather them en masse .

The nest is a shallow depressions on the ground, often in cover, with a scanty lining of plant material.